stale lock, patch

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:28:45AM +0100, Eirik Nygaard wrote:
> I was having some troubles with a stale lock, here is the patch:
> http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~eirikald/mercurial-lock.patch

Please attach patches (one per email). It makes them easier to review
and queue.
 
> "Check if the process that owns the current lock still is alive. If it is not
> we can take the lock for our self."

Looks reasonable. Though we probably want to move the int() into
util.readlock. I also have no idea if your technique for checking if a
process is still running will work on Windows.

Any idea why you're getting stale locks?

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